Parakey

United States
Plain, Wisconsin, United States
706-366-8000 ★

Company profile

Parakey company profile

Parakey was founded in early 2006 by Blake Ross and Joe Hewitt of Mozilla/Firefox fame. [Little has been revealed](http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/nov06/4696) about what Parakey will actually do, but it has been touted as both a platform and set of applications that will merge the desktop environment with the Web. It has also been described as a Web-based operating system. Great emphasis has been placed on Parakey's potential to make tasks on the computer more intuitive for the average Joe. Parakey was acquired by [Facebook](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/Facebook) on July 19, 2007. Sequoia Capital seeded Parakey's operations in early 2005.

Business identity

Phone number
706-366-8000
Operating status
Active
Company type
For Profit
Employee range
00001-00010 employees
Founded
2005-01-01

Headquarters

Headquarters
Plain, Wisconsin, United States
Country code
US
Continent
North America

Capital profile

Funding and company signals

Funding stage
M And A
Funding rounds
1
Last funding
Seed / 2007-03-01
Last equity funding
Seed
Investors
1
Founders
2
Articles
21
Exited on
2007-07-01

Founders and investors

Founders

Blake RossJoe Hewitt

Investors

Y Combinator

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